10:26 PM,
May 22, 2013

Cincinnati's Brandon Phillips smiles as he clutches the bag after an RBI single in the seventh inning Wednesday.

Written by

John Fay
| The Cincinnati Enquirer

The Cincinnati Reds wrapped up a three-game sweep of the New York Mets with a gift from the baseball gods on Wednesday afternoon.

After letting two leads slip away, the Reds were rallying in the ninth when Brandon Phillips hit a bounding ball down the first-base line. Ike Davis let it go past him, thinking it was foul, but it was fair. Shin-Soo Choo scored the go-ahead run.

The Reds added two more runs on a broken-bat blooper from Todd Frazier. It all added up to 7-4 victory before a crowd of 30,415 at Citi Field. ...